Ellen Dahrendorf - Biography

Ellen Dahrendorf, Lady Dahrendorf (née Ellen Joan Krug) is a British historian and translator of Russian political works, and the former wife (1980–2004) of the late German/British academic and politician Ralf Dahrendorf.

Lady Dahrendorf has served on the board of the Jewish Institute for Policy Research, been chair of the British branch of the New Israel Fund, and is a co-founder of the Independent Jewish Voices organisation.

She is the daughter of James Krug, a school teacher and married Ralf Dahrendorf in 1980.

With her former husband, she lived in London and with a vacation home in Bonndorf, Germany.

Publications

• Russian Studies, ed. by Leonard Schapiro, 1986

Translations

• A Question of Madness, by Zhores A. Medvedev and Roy A. Medvedev
• On Socialist Democracy, by Roy A. Medvedev
• Unknown Stalin, by Zhores A. Medvedev